Zumba... baby zumba! My zumba experience!

You can find a thousand and one articles about the facts and figures of zumba but you won't know anything about it until you try it yourselves.

I am now going to speak to you as a sensible, average western-world citizen about my own experience, so feel free and identify yourselves with me without thinking I might be telling you extraordinary fiction-stories like "anyone can look like Giselle" or "skydiving is a peace of cake". To put it more simply, I love eating and I've always been dead-bored of the mere idea of a gym. No, I haven't ever been fat (sorry guys), because I am quite an egoist and can't stand not being at least dignified in all fields; I had  only just reached chubby in the sense of regional chubbiness and had, however, a huge potential of doubling myself every couple of years, if I continued to scoff carbs and lipids with this tempo.

And then zumba came into my life and I was surprised to find out that it really is possible to actually look forward to going to the gym (it's not the same with pilates and yoga I'm afraid). That is attributed to two major factors: a) zumba makes you see results, actual results relatively soon, because you work all your muscles out (especially those of the legs and abdomen), due to the fact that it is real cardio=prolonged fat-burning and b) it's so so pleasant, it's as pleasant as working out but not as boring and it is as pleasant as dancing, but again, not as boring, because the rule is that it practically has no rules! You can combine multiple, completely different in style, dance-moves, and sweat like a pig!

If you manage to really let yourself relax and stop obsessing over thoughts like "I'm not doing this correctly" and "the others must be laughing at me now" and "look at her, she is a born dancer, I am Albert Brennaman" and "I feel my loose ass going up and down like the skin around an English bulldog's mouth" then you are gonna really, really enjoy it and make yourself an athlete's body, without counting sheep while rotating from one sweaty piece of gym equipment to the other. Seriously, I don't know what people think while on the treadmill! Only Thibetan monks can find the inner strength to do this for half an hour without wanting to kill themselves.

Go zumba now!

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